Uhmm, hi. Little nervous about this...
I'm Ari. I was born female but never felt comfortable with it. I thought for a while that I was a transman, but later on realized that wouldn't feel right either. So I've settled as androgynous and I finally feel comfortable, so I know it's what I truly am.
I'm still trying to get past the stage of explaining what I am to my mother, and I think she sort of understands but I have to keep trying. She knows that I desperately want a masectomy and hysterectomy to make my body less female, and her only request is that I wait until I'm twenty-five. So the next step is being myself in the community, which I'll start doing as soon as I move in a month or two. I've already dropped all of the pretenses that I lived under for most of my life, so the only real difference when I come out properly is that I'll start introducing myself as androgynous. I don't expect this to be easy, but I hate trying to suppress who I truly am for appearance's sake.
So, uh, that's my story. It's not much, and it's not exciting, but I'm getting there.
Removed age information ~Leia
